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It is for His pleasure. But God takes no pleasure in souls going to hell. Repent, and believe the gospel, and get saved. The lost bring Him no pleasure at all.
Php 2:13 For it is God which worketh in you both to will and to do of his good pleasure.
 
Strom said:
I’ve never understood why we’re actually on this planet. My uncle, admittedly an unabashed agnostic, says the only point of life is reproduction; we’re simply, like all animal species, meant to continue the lifecycle. I’ve never had a Christian explain the point of life. Perhaps, in a nihilistic fashion, there really is none. If a person fails to reproduce, where does s/he fit into this picture?
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Just a couple of starters for thought. When you say "we're simply...meant to continue the lifecycle..." you assume in that statement an "oughtness" to moral and ethical imperatives. From that supposition you necessarily must regress to the query of exactly who makes such oughtness claims and why their philosophy of meaning and life has any ultimate objective bearing or substantive weight on answering the question. Long story made short, any opinion drawn from within the wells of merely human domains will be subjective and relativistic. For instance, who is to say that Hitler wasn't right? Why is any one person or group's theory of life to be more valued than his or Nietzsche theory of the Superman? The only logical way to escape such subjective notions of oughtness seems to me to be fulfilled in the objective nature of a true law-giver....of course rooted in a coherent worldview posited by the existence of God. Flowing from that consciousness is the notion that Twisted put forth, which is also distilled in Augustine's quote...

Thou hast made us for thyself, O Lord, and our heart is restless until it finds its rest in thee.
 
"What is the point of life?" We could go in circles asking that question.
I think it's more important to ask, "What do I do with the life that has been given me?"
I love the quote below:
"May the living God, who is the portion and rest of the saints, make thee our carnal minds so spiritual and our earthly hearts so heavenly that loving Him and delighting in Him may be the work of our lives."
 
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